Ebook Hidden Universe Travel Guides The Complete Marvel Cosmos With Notes by the Guardians of the Galaxy Marc Sumerak Books
Ebook Hidden Universe Travel Guides The Complete Marvel Cosmos With Notes by the Guardians of the Galaxy Marc Sumerak Books
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The ultimate guidebook to Earth, the Nine Realms, and other dimensions from Marvel Comics, as told by Peter Quill, Rocket, Groot, and the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Ever since Super Heroes like Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy started stomping around planet Earth, we’ve had to open our horizons a little and embrace the wider reaches of space. If you’re thinking of journeying to one of the many new realms for a little R’n’R, then don’t leave home without Hidden Universe’s guide to the cosmos. Whether you’re looking to enjoy the divine splendor of Asgard or soak up the multicultural atmosphere of intergalactic waypoint Knowhere, this is the book for you. It even provides some tips on surviving excursions to Planet Moord and Chitauri Prime, if you like your vacations to be on the extreme side.
• SEE THE COSMOS – Features information on the hot spots, history, and culture of more than forty locations in the Marvel Universe, including Planet X, Halfworld, Weirdworld, and the Planet of the Symbiotes.
• REDISCOVER EARTH – Get the lowdown on some of the Earth's most exotic and mysterious locations, such as Wakanda, Latveria, the Savage Land, and New Attilan.
• GET INVALUABLE ADVICE – Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot, aka the Guardians of the Galaxy, have filled this book with their own unique travel tips, from where to get a drink in Alfheim to dealing with Ego the Living Planet.
Ebook Hidden Universe Travel Guides The Complete Marvel Cosmos With Notes by the Guardians of the Galaxy Marc Sumerak Books
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Hidden Universe Travel Guides The Complete Marvel Cosmos With Notes by the Guardians of the Galaxy Marc Sumerak Books Reviews
- This is probably the GREATEST "comic book" of all times. I just finished reading EARTH and LOVED it!!!!!
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- Xmas gift arrived early and I'm sure it will be a perfect gift
- First of all, a disclaimer for anyone reading this who doesn't know; I am a HUGE Marvel fangirl. I honed my writing skills writing Marvel fanfiction, I own every Marvel movie on Blu-Ray and I'm even a big Marvel's Agents of SHIELD fan. So I'm already pretty knowledgeable about the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The problem with this guide is that it can't seem to make up its mind which Marvel 'verse it's part of. Is it the Cinematic Universe? The commentary by the Guardians characters certainly reads like it is... there's a particularly hilarious reference in the Savage Land section to the fact that Chris Pratt plays both Star-Lord and Owen Grady from Jurassic World.
Except... the Savage Land doesn't exist in the MCU, and neither do a lot of the other places referenced here. The Fantastic Four and the X-Men are mentioned multiple times, and they CAN'T exist in the MCU because of contract issues. So we have to assume that this is in fact set in the main comic Marvel 616 'verse.
And that's a problem. Because MCU fans outnumber comic fans by large numbers these days, and I think this book could actually have huge appeal to MCU fans. It's funny, it's informative, it could really help keep things straight and explain other things which are only mentioned in passing on screen.
Instead, it's just going to confuse readers because of all the non-MCU things in it - which will never be MCU.Â
This is funny, it's beautifully illustrated, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can't give it five stars, though, because I think it's going to miss its target audience. Which is a pity. - Imagine a mash-up of Lonely Planet and Fodors written by a group of snarky been-there-done-that travelers and you’ve pretty much got Hidden Universe Travel Guides The Complete Marvel Cosmos. As the title says, it’s a travel guide to the many settings of the Marvel Universe (sometimes the settings are a universe), with a jaunty-voiced narrator whose more formal guidebook descriptions are constantly interrupted by the less-formal commentary of the Guardians of the Galaxy. It all makes for a fast-paced, mildly informative, and often funny trip through the many, many worlds, islands, moons, dimensions, empires, planets, universes, and pocket universes of the Marvel “Ominiverse.â€
The guide is organized into the “Known Universe†and the “Alternate Universes.†The former covers twelve major settings, including The Kree and Shi’ar Empires, Planet Moord, Chitauri Prime (whence the bad guys in Avengers I came from), Titan (home to another bad guy—Thanatos), Knowhere (home base for the Guardians), and Earth. Our planet is itself divided into another near-dozen separate destinations. Among them are Wakanda, The Savage Land, NYC, Atlantis, Monster Isle, and Counter-Earth. The Alternate Universes section begins with the ten realms of Asgard, then goes on to tour another eleven places, including Battlerealm, Otherworld, Limbo, the Negative and Neutral Zones, and the Superflow.
Most of these I recognized from both my long-ago days of voracious comic reading and my more current movie-going habits, but a few were brand new to me, such as Weirdworld, Cancerverse, and Halfworld. As such, my reaction to the base facts of the place ranged from fond reminiscing to going, “Where did that come from and which superheroes came from/traveled to there?â€
The guide really does read like a guide book, with each 2-3 page setting description divided up into mostly the same pithy segments (not all entries appear in each description, and the mix is somewhat varied past a core group of six or seven)
Who lives there
History and Culture
Etiquette (no, really)
Getting Around
What to Wear
Lodging
Dining and Nightlife
Sights and Activities
Shopping and Entertainment (again, no really)
Tips for a Fun Trip
Did You Know (aka “fun factsâ€)
Almost every page is illustrated, and there are several full-page illustrations sprinkled throughout the book’s 162 pages.
As noted the descriptions are factual and informative (though obviously without going into great depth or detail) and more than a little whimsical in tone. For instance, after describing the famed M’kraan Crystal of Shi’ar—a “nexus of all realities . . . that if damaged could create a black hole that consumes all of existence,†our narrator dryly adds, “Souvenir replicas are available at the gift shop in the lobby.†Later, the Getting Around section for Planet Moord reads simply, “Run. Hide. Then run some more.â€
Meanwhile, the humor and snark level is ratcheted up even further by the constant interruptions of Quill and the gang. I admit that at first I found the frequency to be a little irksome, and I do wish they’d been cut back a little (Groot’s could be “prunedâ€). But really, they’re so much fun and hit their mark more often than not, so this was a minor complaint at best. I laughed out loud more than a few times and chuckled through most of the others. Quill is his usual charming self-referential, pop culture obsessed self (he makes a “Space. The Final Frontier†reference for instance), Drax’s comments tend to center on his desire to visit the places with the most fighting and risk (not to mention drinking), Gamora is more sharply witty, and Rocket is, well, you know how Rocket is. Groot’s interruptions of course all take the form of “I am Groot,†but as usual Rocket is there to translate for us.
Marvel isn’t afraid to poke fun at itself in these moments, as when the memorial to Captain Marvel is described in the Titan section. The narrator notes the burial site “can still be visited by those wishing to pay their respects,†to which Rocket says, “Or you can just wait ‘til he comes back to life. Again.â€
I wouldn’t have minded a bit more detailed info now and then, sometimes the “travel guide†language was a little predictable or mundane, not all the jokes hit, and I thought the artwork could have been upped a bit—not a lot of stunning images though the potential was there. But these were all just minor quibbles barely noted or noted just in passing while I paused between smiles or laughs. There’s enough information here to serve as a useful reference to Marvel’s various settings and large-scale players, such as the Kree or Thanatos, our narrator has a smooth, engaging voice, and it’s just a lot of fun to sit back and listen to the Guardians do their shtick. “Fun†is the key word here, and isn’t that what vacations/trip are for? Making this the perfect guide. - Rated 2.5 of 5
I absolutely adored the <em>Star Trek</em> edition of the <em>Hidden Universe Travel Guide </em>(see review <a href="http//lookingforagoodbook.com/2016/08/27/hidden-universe-star-trek-a-travel-guide-to-vulcan-dayton-ward/" target="_blank">here</a>), and being a long-time fan of Marvel comics (and renewed fan thanks to the movies) I was really looking forward to this next edition in the series. But what felt like a real travel guide in our make-believe world of the Star Trek universe, feels much more like a comic book atlas than a take-off on the Fodor's or Frommer's that sit in the travel sections of book stores.
The book is nicely researched and there's a whole lot of information in here that will really appeal to the Marvel fan. Not being a Marvel historian, I can't really say how much might be created just for this book and how much has existed through the decades of comic book creation.
On every other page (or thereabouts) members of the Guardians of the Galaxy have made additional 'hand-written' notes commenting (usually irreverently) on something. These notes are often fun and editor/author Sumerak manages to not get too carried away with it such that it gets annoying or distracting.
For the history and humor, this book is a lot of fun.
But this is part of a fake Travel Guide series and it kind of doesn't quite live up to the expectation. Unlike the other Hidden Universe guide I read, this one didn't make anything sound like a place to visit with sights to see, instead, it seemed more like a history tour guide - places where battles occurred or where famous villains reside(d).
While I understand including the Guardians of the Galaxy as note-makers given their recent film and appeal, it does strike me (especially after looking at the opening few pages of the book) that Silver Surfer might have made a better guide through the universe.
One of the last things that I didn't care too much for, but again - completely understand - is the art. As a mock travel guide, I would like to see images that are much more like photographs of the places I'm considering visiting. What we get here is very traditional comic book art which, for this reader at least, serves to remind us that this is not much more than a novelty comic book. If that's what you are hoping for then, this is a great addition to your collection. If you are wanting something more, or a Hidden Universe series that is strikingly similar from book to book, then this is a disappointment.
For me, it was the latter.
Looking for a good book? <em>Hidden Universe Travel Guides The Complete Marvel Cosmos With Notes by the Guardians of the Galaxy</em> by Marc Sumerak is sort of a comic book atlas that has a lot of interesting and fun information, but departs from the appeal that the <em>Star Trek Hidden Universe</em> book held.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
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